Alexander Zverev progressed to the last 16 at the US Open for the first time Saturday with a hard-fought 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (7/4), 6-3, 7-6 (7/3) win over Slovenia's Aljaz Bedene.
Union Berlin pulled off perhaps the biggest victory in their turbulent history, defeating Borussia Dortmund 3-1 at the Stadion An der Alten Foersterei on Saturday.
West Indies captain Jason Holder tipped his cap to Jasprit Bumrah after the India pace bowler bagged a hat-trick on day two of the second test in Kingston on Saturday. Bumrah picked up 6-16 as West Indies collapsed to 87 for seven at stumps in their first innings, still 329 runs in arrears of India's first innings score.
Roger Federer may have swept aside the challenge of Briton Daniel Evans in a third-round US Open meeting, but questions on the scheduling of the match, played on the Arthur Ashe Stadium court, refused to die down.
Following his 3-hour-19-minute encounter at the Louis Armstrong Stadium, the fifth-seeded Medvedev spectacularly aced the near 14,000 capacity crowd that rained boos on him for most part of the match. He came up with a verbal winner.
Sports minister Kiren Rijiju has made it “absolutely clear” that the call to boycott the 2022 Commonwealth Games (CWG) in Birmingham over shooting’s exclusion will be taken by the government, keeping in mind the fact that the interest and medal prospect of athletes preparing for the multi-sport event does not suffer.
Canadian Bianca Andreescu brushed aside Caroline Wozniacki on Saturday to reach the last 16 in her U.S. Open main draw debut and now faces her toughest test yet in the form of net-rushing qualifier Taylor Townsend.
Even as the Indian team is busy playing the second and final Test against West Indies in Jamaica currently, Murali Vijay is far away from the action. As far as Test cricket is concerned in recent years, it’s not a situation that is familiar to him. But after difficult away tours of England and Australia last year, Vijay finds himself out of reckoning.
Roger Federer will try to avoid a second consecutive fourth-round exit from the US Open when he returns to action on Sunday while Serena Williams resumes her quest for a record-tying 24th Grand Slam title.
Forecasters say "extremely dangerous" Hurricane Dorian is moving closer to the northern Bahamas. The US National Hurricane Center says Dorian remained a powerful Category 4 storm at 11 pm EDT Saturday. The storm is about 310 miles (500 kilometres) east of West Palm Beach, Florida. President Donald Trump is receiving regular briefings on the hurricane.
Rafael Nadal cruised into the US Open fourth round with a business-like 6-3 6-4 6-2 win over Chung Hyeon on Saturday.
A "straight pride" parade and counter-demonstration went off in Boston Saturday without any major conflicts reported between the two groups. An organisation, Super Happy Fun America, announced the parade as Boston celebrated LGBTQ Pride Month earlier this summer, saying it believes straight people are an oppressed majority.
Top-ranked defending champion Naomi Osaka defeated US 15-year-old sensation Coco Gauff 6-3, 6-0 on Saturday in a showdown at Arthur Ashe Stadium to reach the US Open's fourth round.
Initially, a video of the 'nikah' of the girl had gone viral, in which the visibly scared girl had claimed to be 19 years old.
On Most Intense Day Of Clashes, Police Unleashed Tear Gas, Pepper Spray & Blue Dye On Protesters
The tightly-contested season 7 of Pro Kabaddi has reached mid-season with the opening of the Bengaluru leg and the competition gets even tougher from here on.
Coach Igor Stimac drove to the hospital where Amarjit Singh was recuperating after a surgery on his fractured hand and offered him his support.
The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) has opened the door for professional boxers, including the likes of Vijender Singh and Neeraj Goyat, to return to the amateur fold and compete for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.
Defending champion Novak Djokovic silenced concerns about his left shoulder as the Serbian breezed past American Denis Kudla 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 on Friday to reach the last 16 at the US Open.
On the back of Nick Kyrgios’ collar was the words ‘Just Do You’. The print was bold, the writing in block, a play on the Nike slogan of ‘Just Do It’. Perhaps. At the start of his US Open second-round clash against French wildcard entrant Antoine Hoang, chair umpire Nico Helworth asked the 24-year-old to turn down his collar. He was told that it was against the rules.
Taylor Townsend charged the net 106 times in the 2 hour 4-minute second-round clash, serving and volleying 61 times to shock Simona Halep, the reigning Wimbledon champion, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4).
Ahmedabad is all set to unveil a new state-of-the-art cricket stadium, an ambitious project with a 1.10 lakh capacity that will replace the erstwhile 50,000-capacity Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium constructed in 1982. Speaking to TOI, Union home minister Amit Shah said: "This project is the vision of our PM Narendra Modi."
UK PM Boris Johnson's Brexit plan is facing mounting legal, political and diplomatic challenges as Ireland accused Britain of being unreasonable. Former British PM John Major sought to stop the suspension of parliament. Johnson warned on Friday that opposition to his plans is weakening Britain's negotiating position by giving EU leaders the impression that parliament may step in to block Brexit.
Captain Virat Kohli's fighting 76 and opener Mayank Agarwal's half century helped India reach 264 for 5 on Day 1 to take a slight edge over the West Indies in their World Test Championships second match in Kingston, Jamaica on Friday. Hanuma Vihari (42*) and Rishabh Pant (27*) were unbeaten at the crease when umpires called it a day.
India's Anirban Lahiri has withdrawn from this week's Korn Ferry Tour Championship to help his family based in Florida prepare for Hurrican Dorian.
When Gagan Narang was conferred with the Khel Ratna award in 2011, he cried with joy. For he was getting something he had longed for. He felt a sense of achievement.
Leading Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was arrested Friday, his party said, a day ahead of a planned rally in the city that has been banned by police. His arrest came just hours after the reported detention at Hong Kong's airport of a vocal independence campaigner, and as Beijing continues to pile pressure on the anti-establishment movement in the city.
Former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was left out of India's Twenty20 squad announced on Thursday for three matches against South Africa. Youngster Rishabh Pant, who is being groomed to take over from Dhoni as the team's first-choice gloveman, was named as the solitary wicketkeeper in the 15-member squad.
The Washington Post reports that Biden recently told a campaign audience an emotional story of pinning a medal on a heartbroken service member. But the former vice president got many of the details wrong.
Holders Liverpool received a relatively kind draw for this season's Champions League group stage but 13-times European champions Real Madrid were pitted against Kylian Mbappe and Paris St Germain.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday formally launched the Space Command, which he said will defend America's vital interests in "the next war-fighting domain". Gen John W Raymond (left) is the commander of the US Space Command, which has been established as the 11th Unified Combatant Command of the American armed forces.
About 250 pigs have been causing a ruckus in a Vermont town the past month after they escaped from their enclosure, but most of them have been returned thanks in part to a trail of hot dog buns and good ol' fashioned corralling. Several farmworkers trudged up and down the dirt road to drive any pigs back into the farm The same pigs also got loose last year.
Reigning US Open champion Naomi Osaka eased into the third round Thursday but Petra Kvitova crashed out as organisers sought to play catch up at Flushing Meadows following heavy rain.
Abhishek Verma won the gold medal and Saurabh Chaudhary the bronze, in a dominant display by Indian shooters in the men's 10m air pistol event of the World Cup. Verma shot 244.2 in the eight-man finals, while Chaudhary's 221.9 was good enough to get him the bronze.
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he is cancelling his weekend trip to Poland so that he can spend time in the country as hurricane Dorian barrels down to Florida. Hurricane Dorian is expected to hit Florida coast by Monday with torrential rain and windspeed of 209 km per hour.
A Barcelona official involved in the negotiations with Paris Saint-Germain for Neymar says the Catalan club is "closer" to reaching a deal for the player's return.
Reigning US Open champion Naomi Osaka confronted severe nerves as she survived a rocky start to her title defense Tuesday but an ailing Stefanos Tsitsipas slumped to a four-set defeat by Andrey Rublev in the opening round.
Jasprit Bumrah says he is always evolving to polish his craft, the latest addition to which is the outswinger that he wasn't confident of until last year. "I used to bowl the in-swinger earlier, but the more Test matches I played, the more confident I got for bowling the outswinger, especially since England. A lot of hard work goes into my delivery. I am always trying to evolve," Bumrah said
Australian writer and political commentator Yang Hengjun, who is under detention since January this year, has been formally arrested on suspicion of espionage, media reports said on Tuesday.
What a great day for Indian badminton. PV Sindhu's triumph over Japan's Nozomi Okuhara at the World Championship final shows she in superb form. She was far more convincing than what the scoreline suggests. This victory will give Sindhu a lot of confidence.
Bumrah's incredible match-winning spell of 5/7 helped India bowl out West Indies for just 100 in their second innings to register a massive 318-run victory in the first Test. It is India's biggest overseas Test win by runs.
Antoine Griezmann proved Barcelona can win without Lionel Messi and do without Neymar too after he scored twice in a 5-2 demolition of Real Betis on Sunday.
Rory McIlroy fired a four-under-par 66 to win the PGA Tour Championship and claim the $15 million FedEx Cup jackpot on Sunday.
US President Donald Trump suggested dropping nuclear bombs on hurricanes before they made landfall in the United States, a news site Axios wrote. During a hurricane briefing, Trump asked if it were possible to disrupt hurricanes forming off the coast of Africa by dropping a nuclear bomb in the eye of the storm, it read.
Jasprit Bumrah took five wickets for seven runs as India bowled out West Indies for 100 to clinch a record 318-run triumph and help Virat Kohli to his 27th Test win as India captain, thereby equalling the record set by Dhoni.
G7 leaders close their summit Monday with discussion of world problems including the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest, but overshadowed by President Donald Trump's trade wars and questions over the group's unity.
Brazilian warplanes are dumping water on the burning forest in the Amazon state of Rondonia, responding to a global outcry over the destruction of the world's largest tropical rain forest. Nearly 80,000 fires have been registered across Brazil through Aug. 24, the highest since at least 2013, according to space research agency INPE.
Hong Kong police said on Monday they arrested 36 people, the youngest aged 12, after violence during anti-government demonstrations escalated as protesters hurled Molotov cocktails at security forces who responded with water cannon and tear gas.
"This is one area where Virat needs to just be a bit more consistent - pick players and give them a bit more opportunities - for them to get that confidence and rhythm. You saw how Shreyas Iyer played in the ODI. You picked him...gave him the freedom to play those matches...that needs to happen with a lot of players...I am sure Virat will do that," Ganguly said.